Over the past 37 years, Jia Yong, a Beijing resident dedicated to taking photos in hutong－the capital's traditional alleys－has been capturing and composing everyday life into pieces of art.
After about two years' preparation, the Palace Museum's new ceramics gallery is to open to the public in Beijing on Saturday.
Zuo Peng, who lives in Langfang, Hebei province, drives to Beijing to work, spending about 30 minutes on the Beijing-Shanghai Expressway, commonly called the G2, every workday.
Countless larva wriggle among food scraps and other kitchen waste that has been mashed into small pieces and placed in eight big drawers in a room of no more than 20 square meters.
In Shanghai's Pujin subdistrict, sculptures made from beverage cans, bicycle tires and plastic bottles are displayed around a recyclable transfer center. This is where 17 trucks transport recyclables every week from 71 districts and nine villages near the center.
Many senior citizens in China exercise in parks, soak in the sun, play cards with friends, dance to music in public squares or spend time with their children and grandchildren.
Zhou Yunlong, a native of Xijingyu village, in the Jizhou district of Tianjin, is delighted to see that his first-year business revenue from the homestay he runs in his village reached 200,000 yuan ($30,500) amid the pandemic last year.
No longer are consumers content with going on a spending binge only during holidays and occasions involving rituals.
The annual Labor Day holiday is approaching and this year tourism earnings are expected to reach a new high. The consensus among tourism experts suggests that traveler numbers might reach 200 million nationwide, the highest since 2017.
Liu Fang, a former schoolteacher in Guizhou, provides psychological counseling to many despite a loss of sight.
In late March, fighter planes from a division of the People's Liberation Army Air Force took to the skies in Shaanxi province to take part in cross-regional long-distance training exercises.
In the information service center at the Jinlan logistics base in Linyi, Shandong province, information on logistics orders and cargo vehicles running in and out of the city, such as vehicles' arrival and departure times, is updated in real time on a big screen.
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